Morphological identification of ticks
Ticks received by mail were kept at 4 ° C and examined alive. Specimens were identified with a Nikon SMZ800N stereomicroscope using appropriate morphological characters and identification keys (Estrada-Peña et al., 2018; Walker et al., 2003). The species, sex, developmental stage, engorgement state, host and place of origin of the ticks were recorded.